The bodies of the victims were exhumed from large graves last year and were all identified before the funeral on Saturday.
More than 100 members of the Yazidi minority were murdered by the armed group ISIL (ISIS) six years ago laid to rest at a large funeral in a small town in Iraq.
Soldiers were seen carrying coffins to the cemetery in Kocho, in Sinjar district, on Saturday as a large crowd gathered to mourn the dead.
The bodies were exhumed from mass graves last year in a United Nations-coordinated operation before being sent to Baghdad’s capital for commemoration.
The Iraqi Martyrs Foundation has been overseeing the process and identified the 104 victims using DNA samples taken from their relatives.
To date the government agency has removed 16 mass graves from 73 suspected sites.
One relative of Yazidi who was killed, attending the funeral in Kocho, said some of the victims will not be found. “Some of those bones no longer exist because the floods swept them away,” Obeid Khalaf said.
William Warda, founder of Hammurabi, an organization working to improve minority rights in Iraq, said Al Jazeera Yazidis is still afraid to return home to Sinjar.
“The government’s strategy is [refugee] camping and encouraging people to return to their home country, ”said Warda.
“But the situation, especially in Sinjar, is still critical and there is no confidence in the security situation. As NGOs, we encourage people to return through programming. “
‘Genocide’
ISIL took control of parts of northern Iraq from 2014 to 2017. The armed group rejected other beliefs and sought to eradicate the Yazidis, a religious minority with beliefs that set them apart from foreigners. Muslim and Christian worship in the area.
They destroyed villages and religious sites, set up men and burned them before they stole thousands of women and children, trafficked in modern-day slavery.
It is believed that many of the children raised under ISIL and immersed in the group’s ideology are still living in camps in Syria.
Hundreds of thousands of Yazidis remain in motion while control and administration of the Sinjar region remains under controversy among Iraqi politicians.
Sinjar, in the northwestern region of Nineveh in Iraq and close to the border with Syria, remains largely empty.
The United Nations has carried out the attacks on Yazidi community in Iraq about racism against the small group.